[Rampage]

HLP Denizens,

I want to ask a general question, "In a PC video game, what is the worst/absurd/funniest death of your first/third-person character?"

Basically this limits you to FPS, simulations, and some RPGs.  RTS is out of the play here.  Just specify the game(s), mission(s), and a brief explanation of death.

I'll start.

Thief: TDP - Mission "RTC (Return to Haunted Cathedral)"

When you get the Eye, you must at one point jump to the Hammer pedistal.  When you do, the Eye becomes active and draws the undead around the hammer.  Although most undead can't do anything to you, I was stupid enough to throwing flash bombs at the zombie/haunt/apparition horde waiting to eat my skin when one of the zombies exploded, sending its limbs across the altar, hitting me (I lost health points), causing me to fall down, and being whacked to death by four aggressive Hammer haunts below.

But then, nothing really beats the classic "hit by own missile" type death in FS2.

Rampage

[Taristin]

Too many suicides in HALO to keep track of. And since that's the only FPS I can remember dying in... I don't know.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

OpFlash multiplayer one time.
Spent 5 minutes sorting my men out with weapons and loading them into the APC, set off, drove straight over a mine, killed us all.

Fun

[phreak]

warthog jumping and having the warthog land on you

[Fineus]

Battlefield 1942... to many stupid deaths to keep track of. The greatest humiliation deaths though are not the knife deaths but my own personal speciality.. running some poor shmuck over while in a plane... requiring you to fly low enough to hit a prone sniper without crashing.

That one really gets them to accuse you of cheating

[aldo_14]

killed a chopper-load of passengers in BF:Vietnam once after spiralling into a river after taking off

[Aspa]

I played System Shock 2 some weeks ago...

...one time I used a speed boost, and ran so fast I couldn't stop and hit a wall... and died.

Wonder what Shodan would have said to that...

[Darkage]

I just crashed in to the water while playing Lock-on with DragonClaw.

[DragonClaw]

That was funny as crap. That missile wasn't even gonna come close to you either, why you 'dodged' into the water is beyond me

[Thorn]

Accidentally hitting Enter instead of Shift while flying the Raptor on UT2004. I was higher up than the tower in the midlle of Torlan.
Enter=use or enter/exit vehicle
Shift=Alt-Fire
"GERONIMO"

[SA22C]

Back in the day, I was playing Aces over the Pacific, a great Dynamix/Sierra WWII flying game.  I was doing my thing, wreaking havok on Japanese shipping when the game suddenly crashed and the following message flashed accross my screen:

[SIZE=10]STUPID HUMAN[/SIZE]

I was 11 or 12 at the time and was scared ****less.

More recently I was attempting to save some hapless capital ship in FS2 by shooting down bombs and managed to run right into one.

Boom.

[Taristin]

I was just playing HALO multi, and I teleported to a new area, just intime to get cracked in the skull by an enemy waiting beyond the warp exit.

I need more practice at these things...

[ZylonBane]

Deus Ex-- accidentally triggering an automatic conversation with one of the hostages in the subway station... while carrying a crate of TNT.

"Who are y--" BOOOM!

[Knight Templar]

Halo- Playing all Missle-Gulch. Zoom in and aim on the enemy base to fire a supressive rocket.. let one fly right as a warthog filled with my own men comes over a hill. Missle hits the bottom of the hog, they all die, hog flies inevitably into my face.

[Taristin]

Sounds fun...

[ZylonBane]

Cockbiiiiiiiite!

[Corsair]

Saving the Aquitaine, down to 1% health...
The Aquitaine is fixed, jumps out...and rams me. And I die, watching the Aquitaine jump to the safety of the Gamma Draconis system while my ship blows up.

[DragonClaw]

That would be infinitely more humiliating if the aquitaine actually died from ramming you.

[Bobboau]

that's gratitude for you

[Setekh]

Originally posted by SA22C
Back in the day, I was playing Aces over the Pacific, a great Dynamix/Sierra WWII flying game.  I was doing my thing, wreaking havok on Japanese shipping when the game suddenly crashed and the following message flashed accross my screen:

[SIZE=10]STUPID HUMAN[/SIZE]

I was 11 or 12 at the time and was scared ****less.

More recently I was attempting to save some hapless capital ship in FS2 by shooting down bombs and managed to run right into one.

Boom. [/B]

Dude, Aces of the Pacific was an awesome game. That brings back some memories.

Hmmm, apart from the Halo and FS instances already mentioned, I do vaguely recall just about completing the last level of Commander Keen 6, only to fall down a hole of spikes with the final ending sign in sight. That was pretty bad.